Irkutsk, Siberia, Russia -- (ReleaseWire) -- 02/11/2008 -- Stop wasting your time and guitar - use Chord Pickout, the easiest and fastest way to get chords!

Luxand Development today announces the release of Chord Pickout 1.6, the newest version of a tool for rapid and easy chords recognition. The best in Chord Pickout is that it has been designed with the ordinary user in mind, the one who doesn't have perfect pitch and wants to play popular songs. With a little music knowledge and this program, you can easily figure out any song. Chord Pickout lets you recognize chords, write them down, edit chords and lyrics added and also print them. This program uses its artificial intelligence to guess chords for you. All you have to do is to load a media file (wav or mp3) and click a button. Chord Pickout will transcribe the music and write down the recognized chords. The process is fully automated.

While most of its competitors use simple patterns to recognize chords, Chord Pickout applies complex math and shows outstanding results even in the toughest cases. You will receive chord notations that are very close to those by the song's author. The quality of chords recognition depends on the style of music, types of musical instruments and other factors, but most of the popular songs are recognized very fast and without any problem.

This program will become a must-have tool for those who want to play the hottest and most popular songs on a guitar, piano or other musical instrument.

Read more about Chord Pickout at http://www.chordpickout.com
Download and try it free from http://www.chordpickout.com/download/ChordPickoutSetup.exe

Main features at a glance
- Supports mp3 and wav files;
- Recognizes and displays the complete view of song chords;
- An easy-to-use interface;
- Ability to edit chords and add lyrics;
- Ability to print chords;
- Allows guitar fingering, makes playing the chords more simple.

Chord Pickout Pricing and Availability
Chord Pickout runs under Microsoft Windows 98/2000/XP/Vista and costs $39.95 (USD). The purchase is covered by a 60-day unconditional money-back guarantee. In case a customer is not completely satisfied with Chord Pickout for any reason, a full unconditional refund can be issued. Additional information on the product, as well as its trial version is available from http://www.chordpickout.com. The trial version is available for 21-day evaluation.

About Luxand Development
Luxand Development is a software development company focused on the research in artificial intelligence. The company has developed unique technologies for pattern recognition, applied for recognition of human faces (FaceMorpher, http://www.facemorpher.com) and music (Chord Pickout). For more information, please visit http://www.luxand.com.

Product page link: http://www.chordpickout.com
Direct download link: http://www.chordpickout.com/download/ChordPickoutSetup.exe (1.5 Mb)

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Luxand facial feature recognition and automatic face morphing technologies has been licensed by The Picture Production Company (The PPC) to create an interactive promotional website for its comedy "Knocked Up", on behalf of their client Universal Pictures.

Alexandria, VA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 01/09/2008 -- Luxand Development today announces that The PPC, a leading film marketing company in the UK, has chosen Luxand's technologies of face recognition and morphing for licensing. The technologies have been used to create a 'baby creator', a promotional website for the comedy "Knocked Up", for Universal Pictures.

"We are thrilled to be offering The PPC and Universal Pictures our newest facial recognition and morphing solutions that were used to create a promo project for the movie "Knocked Up", says Alex Konoplev, Luxand's CEO. "Our partnership is a phenomenal opportunity for us to show the possible results of adopting our technologies and to get them in the hands of even more customers worldwide. We think The PPC is the best partner to kick this off!"

The ground-breaking facial recognition and automatic face morphing technologies were developed after the analysis of literally thousands of faces. The results of using these solutions are outstanding in quality and accuracy. The technologies are delivered in one Software Development Kit - Luxand FaceSDK, which is now available for anyone to license.

The application of Luxand technologies is numerous. They can be used to create video for rich content websites, as well as in image and music editing software, such as Luxand's recent products: FaceMorpher, face morphing software, and Chord Pickout, a powerful software tool for music recognition. However the most promising area of application is expected to be security.

Please, feel free to explore Luxand.com or contact Alex Konoplev, the company's CEO at ak@luxand.com to find out more about facial recognition and morphing software, as well as licensing options. To see the "Knocked Up" promotional website where the technologies have been used, please visit www.knockedupbabycreator.com.

About Luxand Development
Luxand Development is a private technology company formed in 2005. At the formation of the company Artificial Intelligence and biometric identification technologies have been chosen to be the main focus of the Luxand's research. The company provides facial feature recognition solutions to a broad range of companies where the need for accurate identification is vital. The areas of their use include immigration and border control, access control and identification within a building, human-computer interaction systems, entertainment and advertising.

To learn more about the company, visit http://www.luxand.com.

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Irkutsk, Siberia -- (ReleaseWire) -- 12/15/2006 -- Luxand Development today announces the release of Chord Pickout 1.5, the newest version of a tool for rapid and easy chords recognition. The best in Chord Pickout is that it has been designed with the ordinary user in mind, the one who doesn't have perfect pitch and wants to play popular songs. With a little music knowledge and this program, you can easily figure out any song. Chord Pickout lets you recognize chords, write them down, edit chords and lyrics added and also print them. This program uses its artificial intelligence to guess chords for you. All you have to do is to load a media file (wav or mp3) and click a button. Chord Pickout will transcribe the music and write down the recognized chords. The process is fully automated.

While most of its competitors use simple patterns to recognize chords, Chord Pickout applies complex math and shows outstanding results even in the toughest cases. You will receive chord notations that are very close to those by the song's author. The quality of chords recognition depends on the style of music, types of musical instruments and other factors, but most of the popular songs are recognized very fast and without any problem.

This program will become a must-have tool for those who want to play the hottest and most popular songs on a guitar, piano or other musical instrument.

Read more about Chord Pickout at http://www.chordpickout.com
Download and try it free from http://www.chordpickout.com/download/ChordPickoutSetup.exe

Main features at a glance
- Supports mp3 and wav files;
- Recognizes and displays the complete view of song chords;
- An easy-to-use interface;
- Ability to edit chords and add lyrics;
- Ability to print chords;
- Allows guitar fingering, makes playing the chords more simple.

Chord Pickout Pricing and Availability
Chord Pickout runs under Microsoft Windows 98/2000/XP and costs $39.95 (USD). The purchase is covered by a 60-day unconditional money-back guarantee. In case a customer is not completely satisfied with Chord Pickout for any reason, a full unconditional refund can be issued. Additional information on the product, as well as its trial version is available from http://www.chordpickout.com. The trial version is available for 14-day evaluation.

About Luxand Development
Luxand Development is a software development company focused on the research in artificial intelligence. The company has developed unique technologies for pattern recognition, applied for recognition of human faces (FaceMorpher, http://www.facemorpher.com) and music (Chord Pickout). For more information, please visit http://www.luxand.com.

Product page link: http://www.chordpickout.com
Direct download link: http://www.chordpickout.com/download/ChordPickoutSetup.exe (1.0 Mb)
E-mail: ak@chordpickout.com
Company website: http://www.luxand.com

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